The recently released book, “Fury and Grace: 40 Days of Paintings and Poetry from Prison,” edited by the Rev. Riley Pickett and the Revs. Layne and Crawford Brubaker, is now a podcast, too.
“Seeing Jesus: Social Justice Activities for Today Based on Matthew 25” includes 60 social justice activities for children, teens and adults to live out the Matthew 25 vision.
Fall is quickly approaching and as churches begin planning for Advent this year, Westminster John Knox Press is pleased to announce the publication of two exciting new devotionals for the season.
Westminster John Knox Press is pleased to announce the publication of Our Connectional Church: The Hopeful Future of the PC(USA) from Gradye Parsons with a foreword by Frank Clark Spencer. From Spring City, Tennessee, to Atlanta, Georgia, Parsons explores the unique faith traditions of four Presbyterian churches, demonstrating the diversity of ministry done by Presbyterians today.
The Presbyterian Writers Guild (PWG) is accepting nominations for its 2016 Best First Book Award, honoring the best first book by a Presbyterian author published during the calendar years of 2014-2015.
Stop what you are doing right now. Well, you don’t have to stop everything, but at least slow down. Maybe you need to stop some things and start others—but whatever you do, it should involve connections. Connections with real humans where you live and not video feeds, mass marketing, programs, automation or social media. Oh yeah, these real humans have stories and needs, so listen and respond.
Anne Lamott ― a member of St. Andrew Presbyterian Church in Marin City, Calif. ― is the most honest and self-critical author I know, and so I was predisposed to find her new slim book on prayer ― Help, Thanks, Wow: Three Essential Prayers ― a helpful gem. What I wasn’t expecting was how easily and briefly this remarkable writer can lay out how rich a life of prayer can be ― and how well she seems to know me, and maybe you, too.
Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf has spent most of his adult life trying to build interfaith and international bridges. But to many Americans, he is the public face of the so-called “Ground Zero mosque,” one of the most controversial religious projects in recent U.S. history.
The World Council of Churches (WCC) has announced the development of a new book series on Orthodox theology in partnership with Volos Academy in Greece.
The technological age has brought us many pocket-sized wonders: telephones, cameras, computers, music-players.
Now, for Presbyterians, there’s a new mini-wonder: a pocket-sized “2011 Special Edition” of the denomination’s new Form of Government.